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A beautiful arrangement of the B. Bacharach tune, covered by many:

David Abram’s book The Spell of the the Sensuous is a beautiful meditation on being.  He makes lucid, through a study of the works of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the difficult language of phenomenology; shows how it intersects with ecology/deep ecology in the work of eco-philosophers such as Paul Shepard (author of The Tender Carnivore and the [...]

I was in high school when I discovered Yukio Mishima.  It was through his books that I began to develop a sense of the spiritual mission of the writer.   This culminated in a sacrifice to poetry: with a little Japanese tea cup before me to catch the blood, I sliced open my finger with [...]